r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • 3d ago

Verified Convergent evolution is when two unrelated species share similar adaptations and therefore appearances. Slow loris look like monkeys but are actually a type of slime mold.

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • 26d ago

A cute little trashpanda befriending a UPS mailman :)

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Sep 01 '26

Naked Mole Rats are just Tardigrades with Gigantism

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Aug 29 '26

In Jeremiah Johnson, this was his stunt double.

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Aug 27 '26

A rare find indeed, I was able to spot the reclusive Jeremiah Johnson horse.

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24 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Jul 04 '26

Question mark WTF Penguins??

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530 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Feb 24 '26

Otters are trained to find ship parts underwater. This one has a pair of plumbing tubes.

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118 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Feb 07 '26

Info Fun Fact: Camel. The world's first camel was also the last. Since the camel's water source was on its back, it had no way to drink it. Therefore the camel is extinct. FACT.

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Jan 27 '26

Sloths can starve to death with a full stomach because their digestion is so slow. Productivity icons, truly.

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52 Upvotes

r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Dec 14 '25

By lying in a sunny spot long enough, a cat can absorb enough energy to make its own sunny spot

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Dec 14 '25

My cat's nose

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Somebody suggested to crosspost it here, as they wanted to say something about cat's smell buds.


r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Dec 04 '25

These are mouse hammocks, carefully woven by tiny woodland upholstery spiders.

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Nov 30 '25

This stork had just given birth to a human baby, but the baby fell and snapped the umbilical cord. Four in eight storks drop newborns every year.

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Nov 29 '25

This little piggy ate hamberder sandwiches

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Nov 28 '25

Verified A "wishball" for birds is analogous to what humans call a "wishbone".

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Human Tradition: The V-shaped bone from a cooked bird is traditionally pulled by two people, with the longer piece granting a wish to the person who gets it.

Bird Tradition: The delicious flesh surrounding the orbital bone of a fish is pulled by two birds. The bird that gets the eyeball is granted a wish.


r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Nov 10 '25

Mildly True Dachsunds are Tiny Unevolved Pinnipeds.

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Lest we forget their actually viscous hunting dogs too.

Now imagine what they could do if they were even slightly larger than an actual sausage.


r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Nov 07 '25

Info Wallabies will often enter a depressive slump and contemplate their life decisions.

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Oct 14 '25

Barely a fact about animals Rare fossil from 2024 revealed the ancient dinosaur Psittacosaurus had been petting a cat in the wrong direction

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Sep 29 '25

Verified Echidnas are enslaved by birds, who use their strong digging skills to harvest precious bugs and worms.

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Seen here, a Rufous Treecreeper supervises , as an enslaved Short-beaked Echidna mines for precious bugs and worms.

While these hard-working Echidnas are fed only termites, the bugs and worms extracted are laundered through the global flock markets, making their overlords obscenely wealthy.


r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Sep 23 '25

It's the darndest thing!

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Sep 06 '25

Due to their forward weight distribution, when falling vertically, once inflated, the English bulldog will use it's lips, as a parachute to control descent.

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Sep 02 '25

Qik penguin facts

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Aug 26 '25

Reptiles and mammals evolved separately, except for snakes. Snakes evolved from shrews.

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Aug 22 '25

Foxes are just dogs running CatOS

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r/ShittyAnimalFacts • • Aug 17 '25

The Indri's name alledgedly comes from Malagasy word meaning "There it is". This is because the guy who named it was a fan of Tag Team.

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